About NVIC

The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is an academic centre providing services for scholars and students from the supporting universities.

The main focus of our activities is in the fields of Arabic & Islamic studies, Middle East Studies, Egyptology, Archaeology and Papyrology. 

The staff members of the institute, as well as its temporary research fellows, undertake research on behalf of the supporting universities. The NVIC occasionally organises colloquia on topics related to its expertise. 

The NVIC also offers academic courses in the archaeology of Egypt and in Arabic studies within the framework of study programmes at the Dutch and Flemish universities. These courses focus on practical knowledge and academic experience in Egypt and they thus add a significant aspect to either field of study at our participating universities. The Institute may assist in the supervision of theses, papers and other individual study programmes undertaken in Egypt. 

In 2017 the institute started teaching BA courses in Middle East Studies. These ME semesters include content courses on current topics in the Middle East/Egypt (15 ECT) as well as Arabic language acquisition courses (Standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial) (15 ECT). In addition, the NVIC organises courses on demand in the fields of the language, culture and society of Egypt and the Middle East academic and non-academic target groups, such as governmental institutions and private companies. 

Finally, the Institute helps to disseminate Dutch and Flemish culture and promotes Dutch- and Flemish-Egyptian cultural co-operation, working closely together with the competent institutions in the Netherlands and Flanders and their respective embassies, for instance by offering Dutch language courses.